The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-22

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Nater VOTES OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
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AN ORDINANCE to assess and levy taxes and
raise revenue for the city of Savannah; for
the regulation of certain kinds of business in
the corporate and iuIisdictional limits of said
city: fixing penalties for the violation of the
revenue ordinances of said city, and for other
purposes connected with taxes and revenue of
said city.
SECTION /. The Mayor and Aldermen of the
CITY of Savannah, in Council assembled. do
hereby ordain, That from and after the first
day of january, 1888 the inhabitants of said
corporate and juGSdictional limits of said
city, and those who hold taxable prop
erty within the same, and those
who transact or offer to transact
business therein, except such as are EXEMPT
from taxation by law, shall pay toward the sup
port of the government of said city, and for the
safety, benefit, convenience and advantage of
said city, the taxes hereinafter prescribed.
SEC. ?. Every person and corporation owning
real property in said city, including improve
nents, shall pay tax, TO be assessed by Coun-
Gil upon the value of said property by the first
day of April 1883, at the rate of two and one
eighth Der centum of such value, except on
such property as may be exempt from taxation
under the laws of this State.
SEC. g. Every person and corporation owning
holding household
kitchen or office furniture, private or profess
sional libraries, watches, lewelry, plate, mu-
steal Instruments billiard tables, in private resi-
dences, stocks in money corporations, bonds
notes and other evidences of debt, money
solvent debts, stock in trade and every other
kind of personal property whatsoever
pleasure and convenience and hereinafter other
wise taxed, shall pay tax of one half of one per
centum on the value of such personal property
50 owned or held on the first day of January,
1888, except such as may be exempt from taxa
ton by the laws of this State or of the United
States The foregoing phrase, stocks in money
corporations shall not include shares in banks
or banking associations organized under the
authority of this State or the United States,
end located within the city of Savannah,
whether the owner of such shares reside in the
said city OF elsewhere, but the tax on such
snareS shall be three-teenths of one per cent
per annum, i'm accordance with tax law of the
State, but nothing in this or any other section
of this ordinance shall be construed to require
any tax upon the capital of any bank or bank
ing association organized under the authority of
this State or of the United States, or to require
any tax upon the shares of stockholders in any
such bank or banking association at any greater
tate than is required for other monied capital
in the hands Of Individual citizens.
Sec. 4. Every ShipmaSter, captain, super
cargo, agent or other officer of any snip or yes
sci. or other person who shall charter or offer to
charter his vessel, who shall sell goods or
articles of any kind from any vessel or wharf
personally purchase cargo or collect freight, ex-
cept through a licensed broker or commission
merchant, shall be considered a commission
merchant, and pay the tax hereinafter pre-
ScIibed for commission merchants.
Sec. 5. Every person tranSacting or offering
10 transact either of the kinds of business here
matter specified shall pay the tax hereinafter
prescribed for every separate place in which he
shall transact, or offer to transact business viz:
Every auctioneer and commission merchant,
or auctioneer and broker, two hundred dollars;
Every dealer in goods, wares aud merchan-
disc, including dealers in drugs, etc lin addition
to liquor tax or license), as follows:
Every dealer exclusively retail, forty dollars;
Every dealer exclusively wholesale, or retail
dealer selling at wholesale, one hundred and
seventy dollars;
Every dealer in liquor doing wholesale bust
ness, three hundred dollars;
Every banker or bank agent, or agents of
bankers engaged in buying or selling exchange,
including every insurance company doing a
banking business, two hundred and fifty dol
lars; every bank five hundred dollars;
Every cotton broker, broker or dealer in stocks
and bonds, money broker, and every produce.
grocery and naval stores broker exclusive of
brokers in liquor: seventy.fve dollarsi
Every ship broker, one hundred dollars;
Every dealer in butter, lard and cheese, eighty
dollars;
Every dealer in hides, wax and tallow eighty
dollars;
Every broker for the sale of horses, cattle or
mules, who keeps no stable for the sale of the
same, eighty dollars;
Every dealer in horses, cattle or mules, who
keeps no stable for the sale of same, eighty dol
lars;
Every pa -rbroker three hundred dollars;
Every bullaing and loan association, fifty dol
lars;
Every loan association doing a banking bust
ness. two hundred dollars:
Every fire or life insurance company doing
business, whether directly or through an
agency, two hundred dollars;
Every marine, accident or other insurance
company doing business, whether directly or
through an agency, fifty dollars;
Every person who shall be sworn by the
Mayor (who is hereby authorized to administer
the oath for such purpose) as public weigher
of any goods, wares or merchandise, twenty-five
dollars;
Every local average or insurance adiuster,
other than an agent of an insurance company,
fifty dollars;
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
tains seventy five rooms or upward, two hun
brad d liars.
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
tains under seventy five rooms, and having fifty
rooms one hundred dollars.
Every keeper or keepers of hotel that con-
tans under fifty rooms, fifty dollars;
Every sewing machine agenct or agency,
fifty dollars, the same for each and every
agency;
Every dealer in sewing machines, fifty dollars;
Every dealsr in coal. not paying tax as a
wholesale dealer, seventy.iive dollars; nj
exclusively at wholesale, or at retail and whole
sale one hundred dollars;
Every retail dealer in stationery or books,
forty dollars;
Every agent for or dealer in fertilizers, not
dred and seventy dollars;
Every sailor boarding house keeper, fifty dol
lars;
Every runner for a sailor boarding house,
twenty five dollars;
Every owner or owners, lessee or lessees. Of a
cotton press establishment, three hundred dol
lars; every hand cotton press, twenty-five dol
lars;
Every the owner or owners, lessee or lessees.
Of junk shop, or junk dealer, one hundred and
fifty dollars;
A cotton pckery, TO be confined exclusively
TO the purchase or sale Of cotton, one hundred
and seventy dollars. and all buyers of loose
cotton who buy from other than cotton mer-
chants. one hundred aud seventy dollars;
Every the owner or owners OF steam cotton
gin establishments one hundred dollars
Every commission merchant or factor, or ex-
porter of cotton lumber, naval stores or other
merchandise, foreign or coastwise, or agency,
or representative of firm Of exporters. two hun.
dred dollars;
Every stevedore, iifty dollars;